November 4, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and Jack and he is Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Why from studio scene sees or a dimly lit room
deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications Compound kicking off the brand new week elections tomorrow.
Until day we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
The last nerve has him what everybody's.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
On at this point.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Boy, first polls close six Eastern time tomorrow, three.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
O'clock my time, our ton.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But maybe it won't have any results for royal. Hard
to say. Here's the most interesting thing I learned over
the weekend. This is not about a particular poll. This
is about the polling in general. We talked about this.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
On I'm going to say, anybody brings up polls, we're fighting, well,
this is well.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This is why you were right about that. This is
why you walked into the rooms and said, oh, be Gorer,
I saw a poll that was interesting. I would just
go ahead and get my head beat in because I'm
fighting and anybody who brings up any posts but anyway,
this backs up your thinking excellent. So we talked about
this a little on Friday. The new term that I
(02:11):
learned that seems to be the big thing is hurting
in the world of polling, where you don't want to
put out a poll that's an outlier because it could
make you look bad or something like that. Even though
that's the way polling works, they should be kind of
all over the place, just kind of moving a direction
or not. Nate Silver ran the numbers and decided that
for all seven swing states, he said, even if all
seven swing states are actually tied down to the vote,
(02:36):
for all of the polls to show erase this close
without hurting, like without the pollsters getting involved and trying
to make them close, that would be a one and
nine point five trillion chance of all of the polls
being all the states being this close at the same
time in all the polls. Wow, one on nine point
five trillion chance of that happening.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Statistic. I was ready for a big number. I wasn't
ready for that Bega number. And in other words, this
is absolutely laughable.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean it could be well, he said, even
if they're tied, it would be so, but they could
be that close.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But they're definitely not. That's not accurate.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It could one candidate could easily win every state and
be that far ahead because they were just working so
hard to We're underestimating Trump and will be killed for
this for the next four years, or we're overestimating Trump
and all the Harris people are gonna be mad at
this or whatever they're doing to try to get it closer,
and it's just not realistic.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I have a couple of thoughts, especially for people
who didn't hear that segment last week. Number One, you
would expect with a margin for air three percent in
either direction, and it really ought to be called a
it's not error per se. It's a margin of inexactitude.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think that's the I think that might be one
of the problems. I was thinking about this all weekend
as I learn more about this. Somehow we got in
our heads with no evidence that polling is a bit
exact dish of a science and it's just not never
has been, never will be.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's impossible. Oh yeah, it's a shotgun. It's not a
sniper's right. It shouldn't be called the margin of error.
It's not an error, but you'd expect that if all
the polls were honest, you would have a fairly randomized
set of results that spanned the so called margin of error, right,
not all of them ending up. It's just impossible. They're
not that accurate. Again, it's a shotgun. You wouldn't hit
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the bulls eye and only the bulls eye every single time.
So that's thought number one. Second, second thought in hell,
this is for you, Jack, as much as it is
for the audience. It reminds me so much of every
executive in show business, in entertainment, in communication, the creative arts, whatever.
None of them get fired for doing what everybody else
(04:43):
is doing, right, so they think, yeah, yeah, let's not innovator,
take a chance.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's just do what everybody's doing all the damn time,
even if it's failing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Across an industry, they just don't want to be the
guy who tries something different, because then you're at risk. Yeah,
this reminds me of that principle. But now, among polsters.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
One in nine point five trillion chants of having all
the polls come out that close, that is guffaw worthy.
It absolutely is. So.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I appreciate Nate Silver's recent turn to the speaker of
truth I mean he's always kind of been that, but
he's well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In a call out as you know, the powers that
be I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, so that gives you an idea of where things
are on that and then.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The polls start closing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Indiana and Kentucky will close at six eastern three on
the West coast, which is right in the middle of
the afternoon, and we'll start getting some results, but you know,
if they're super close. Who knows who came up with
these weird rules that, Like, for probably the most important
state in the entire election, Pennsylvania, they don't start opening
(05:52):
the ballots until the polls close. That's the state law.
Why why do you wait till seven at night to
start opening the ballots? I mean, what's the theory behind that?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I suspect so no preliminary results or trends get out
that might influence the election. I think back in the
day when it was a few mail in ballots, and
remember these these rules were crafted Like it's as if
our traffic laws were crafted for nineteen twenty seven, when
there's like fifteen cars on the road in Manhattan. Yeah,
(06:22):
it was crafted for when there were a few mail
in ballots. The rest were, you know, live ballot packs.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We're actually going to play a clip later. I came
across this. It got fed to me and my algorithm
on YouTube. It was election night nineteen eighty four. And
if that's how different politics are now, and I guess
our patients nineteen eighty four, if you don't remember, Ronald
Reagan won every single state but one. And so the
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election results are rolling in and it's a monta. It's
like edited together.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Like an hour long.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it's really
hilarious compared to the way they would handle it now.
We now have another state in and Ronald Reagan currently
leads one ninety two to zero.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Jim and they, but nobody called it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Nobody called the race even though so clearly over, and
I'm sure all the polling leading up to it showed
it to be not even close. But they still hung
in there as journalists and didn't call it until it
was over, which is so different than the way we
do thing now. It's a race to see who can
call it first or not call it first if it's
not going your political direction.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Forty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's something now, though, I think they hung in there
saying it's now two hundred and eleven for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Michael Dukakis has zero.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
A reminders that President Reagan has not yet crossed the
threshold seventy electoral votes and so their results are uncertain.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Has a different time, man, different time.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And I remember we had Newt Gingrich on this show
years ago, and I remember asking him the question, when
will this whole polarization thing be over? And he said,
when one side wins? And I was thinking, man, that
election nineteen eighty four, one side had won at least
for a while, clearly, I mean it was, you know,
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we're not at each other's throats, because it was clear
where the vast majority of people were. Yeah, And the
Democratic Party went back home and reinvented itself and came
up with a moderate, a conservative by today's standards, and
absolutely yeah, who was pro capital punishment and wanted to
make people work for their welfare check and all kinds
of different things. That's the way politics works. But we're
(08:36):
a long way from that now, good lord.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, yeah, Well, it's funny not to get too winding
in our roadmap of topics here.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So we're we're doing the Trump weave. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I had a conversation with a couple of friends over
the week, including one Jewish fellow, who agreed completely that
the Israeli peace plan of will defeat our enemies is
absolutely necessary. How does this incredible violence end when one
side wins? That's the story human history, not Barack Obama
(09:12):
sitting at a bargaining table and coming up with some
intellectually superior set of agreements and counterbalances. No one side's
got a win. Seems ugly to the modern consciousness, but.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's the way humans are.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
There are two stories that made me very angry over
the weekend, both of them in the same direction politically
against Trump and four Harris just unbelievable. But we should
start to show officially before mention that I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, November the fourth, man.
November the fifth has been thrown around as a threat
or a promise for so long, good lord, and it's
(09:47):
tomorrow finally. Anyway, it's your twenty twenty four life. Will
not be a born twenty four. We're Armstrong and getting
we approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Let's begin then Officially, according to f SEC rules and regulations,
the show starts at mark.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So on election night, don't expect to know the winner.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We probably will have a pretty good idea who won
the presidency, maybe around Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, that's from sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You know what they're gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna
be like one hundred post polling polls that come out,
according to the New York Times, see in a post
election poll, it appears Trump may have won.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
If they're right that it'll be Thursday or Friday, you
could easily skip the news tomorrow and not miss a thing, right,
a thing, not a thing that matters. There'll be all
kinds of conjecture, and this could happen, that could happen,
but not a thing of substance if it plays.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Out the way they just described it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There not unless you are an uber political geek who
wants to know how the fourth district of Indiana went,
because that's frequently a bell weather for the blah blah blah.
I mean, if you just want to know who's winning
the game, no, forget it, complete waste of time.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah yeah, so I had build all this excitement for uh,
you know, it's gonna get sitters and get a little
meth and whatever it took to be able to go
all day long and all night long. But there might
not be any actual news to be had on Tuesday,
November fifth.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And what's so funny is then somebody I'll go ahead
and say it ways in and says, on the other hand,
it might be a decisive sweep for Trump or Harris
or something nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You know, I'm gonna hang on to the two incredibly
egregious things that happened over the weekend politically that you
get more commentary just freaking angering. But I guess it's
where we are in our politics. We'll talk about that
at the bottomn How does mail bag.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Look very strong start to the week? Awesome?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
I am so flexible now after a couple of months
of stretching every single.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Day's so flexible. Well, congratulations, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I just threw my foot up on the counter at
the time my shoes in a way that I could
not do at all.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What wow, good for you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I got my foot way up here, huh up on
the count of Craze.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's awesome. Well, it was just a couple of months ago.
If I'd dropped a pen on the floor, Sam, can
you come downstairs? Your father has dropped a pen. I
couldn't bend over to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, congratulations, I too, as you know, have embraced stretching
rapidly for me to save myself from excruciating pain.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But it's been, you know, a good thing. In general.
I think I could put both feet behind my head.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You want to see me? O, Lord, please Michael quick
play the freedom loving quote of the day. Music or
cut off is mike, or or hand out cups of
hemlock or something whatever. Mix it in, So beloved listener
Steve sent this along Patrick Henry and Donald Trump, and
it begins with a quote from Patrick Henry and.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Ends with one from Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is the complete Patrick Henry quote on King George
the Third, Like so many of the great quotes from
the Revolutionary period, off and the context is lost because
they want to keep it good and pithy.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
But he's talking about King George the Third.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Caesar had his brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell and
George the third may profit by their example. If this
be treason, make the most of it, which is a
great restatement of Look, if you take a shot.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
At the king, don't miss.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All right, If we're committing treason, we gotta get it
done all the way.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You can't partially do that, or you end up dead
and accomplishing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, the greatest sin is to hit softly and then
trump on warhawk Liz Cheney, she is a radical warhawk.
Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine
barrels shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
about it, you know, when the guns are trained on
her face.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
If I'm not sure what Steve's point is in judgeaposing
those two quotes.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But that whole quote is not played very often. That's
one of the things that has me so angry. The
coverage of that story is and this is an extraordinary statement,
I realize, but it is the single worst coverage of
a major story that matters in my lifetime. Yes, I mean,
it's just a hundred percent lie.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, lot to say, but I think it represents the
complete abandonment of the principles of journalism to which many
of us had clung for many years. Yeah, any semblance
of accuracy or even handedness. Mailbag, drop us a note,
mailbag at Armstrong you getty dot com. Keep it as
short as you can, but you know with any reason.
Got this note from mad Dog. It's Monday morning. Where
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are you guys withdrawals?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Where did it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Work for the same schedule where maybe you forgot to
spring backward or fall.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
To the side or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's right, there's a time change, so probably a quarter
of our audience had heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Stats bear that out. Jack moving along. I like this
from Steve and Everett Washington. Grew up in a JFK
household where we were revered free speech, individual choice, civil liberties,
civil rights. I want to conserve those liberal values. Does
that make me a liberal or a conservative?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, that's the interesting thing about the term something.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's as I came up with a test, and he
talks about your high school self and if you'd be
shocked at where you are politically these days, and then
he says, the Republican of today is not demonstrably different
than when I was in high school. However, the Democrat
of today would absolutely shock the Democrat of the nineteen seventies.
Make of that what you will. Well, a hell of
a lot of people Steve are saying that I didn't
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leave the party. The party left me, and I hope
more wake up to the absurdities of the modern woke
Democratic Party, the absurdities and obscenities. Anyway, moving along, this
is from Frank just c and know. I was told
by an officer at the vote by mail office I
should drop my stuff at a dropbox or just go
to the voting center because they're having postal issues. Drop
Boxes are nowhere to be found anywhere in my zip code.
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I have to drop it off at the voting center.
I might as well vote there. Don't get me started on.
Even if the vote is safe and voter fraud is
extremely rare, if people have a widespread perception that it's.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The wild West, and who who knows.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
What's going on with all the ballots, you've lost, You've
lost the game.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Did you see this story, Jahad?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Did you see the story about the Chinese national voting
in Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think over the weekend, I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Just saw the headline Marco Rubio is going big on
that on facin Nation yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We can talk about that. This from rich Trump's doing
a lot of stupid. It's almost as if he's trying
to lose or something. He's lost as marbles. Oh this weekend. Anyway,
he said he should not have left the White House
in twenty twenty. Oh lord, he said he's going to
eliminate fluoride. We grew up in Latin America. No fluoride.
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We all have terrible teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So yeah, that's RFK Junior's big thing, taking the floor
out out of the water. And Trump says he's going
to appoint him. But so did Trump say I shouldn't
have left the White House?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, he said something of that effect. Oh my god,
that's not the right thing to say. In the closing days.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Wherever Harris, if she wins with this strategy, and she might,
it's horrible for our politics and horrible for America. Are
not weighing in on important topics just so she can
have it both ways. The worst, most egregious example coming up,
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Speaker 3 (17:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Kamala, take my Pamela. The American people want to stop
the chaos and end the DRAMAA with a cool new step.
Mamala came back in our pajamaa's and watch a rum Kamala.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You know that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I thought she was good on there for what politicians do.
And this was interesting to me though, that the FCC commissioner,
who was a Republican, came out immediately and said, that's
not fair. You don't get to have one candidate on
and not the other. So NBC had to have Trump
on last night for Sunday Night Football, the most watched
show in America, and he got to do a couple
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of ads at the end of the game to balance
it out. So I got the big NASCAR race too.
That's how that worked over the weekend. I think you're
actually better off as Trump. I guarantee you you're better
off as Trump at the end of the NFL game
than you are on Saturday Night Live. So that that's
a pretty good equal time for him.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Boy, unless he unleashed Martin Luther esque statement of principles
and persuasion, he's not gonna move anybody watching Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, and they wouldn't they wouldn't treat him fairly anyway,
What was I gonna say, Oh, so we'll get into
it later.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
The whole.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Trump saying Liz Cheney is a chicken hawk. This is,
by the way, as you all know, the criticism that
the left has been using on Liz chaneing your dad
for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean, it's not even like unconservatives. I mean it's
literally the same person, right that they vote for war,
but they don't have to fight him themselves. And Trump
said exactly the same thing with very colorful language about
how about if she's out there with a gun and
she's got nine guns trained at her face?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But the media endited that down and.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Presented it for four days now as if Trump had
threatened Liz Cheney with a firing squad.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Basically is the way it was portrayed on all media.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I mean, just absolutely, egregiously lying about the context, even
when that's the exact thing they've been saying about Dick
Cheney and his daughter for years.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Right, I'm sorry, are we not talking about this now
or we are gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Play the clips later? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Because I want to get to this. This is why
I had to steam for. Sorry, I went too far
with the thing I'm not talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is the one.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is the one that really makes me mad though.
And if you can get If Kamala Harris wins, we're
into a new era. I guess that hopefully only applies
when you're running against Trump. The most important thing going
on in California for those of us who live here
is Prop thirty six, where they'll m make crime a
crime again. That's the idea that currently, because of a
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prop that misled a bunch of soft heads from several
years back, you can steal up to one thousand dollars
with a stuff at a store and it's not a
felony and so, and you can do it over and
over again. That's why those of you around the rest
of the country have seen all the videos of people
going into a Walgreens and sweeping all the stuff off
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the shelf into the bag. That's why all the Walgreens
have closed. That's why all the CBS's have closed. That's
why your toothpaste and everything that's worth more than fifty cents.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Is locked up, locked up.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
My toothpaste is because of that, and Prop thirty six
will reverse it and Kamala Harris listen to how this
played out. She's a Californian still, she was a senator
from California. She refused to answer when asked how she
would vote on a measure to impose harsher sentences on criminals.
She was taking questions from reporters in Michigan yesterday when
she discussed she had cast her own ballot in the
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final hours of the race. She confirmed that she was
voting by mail and hoped it would get to her
home state on time. She was then asked how she
voted on Proposition thirteen, which by the way, is passing
like seventy five percent to twenty currently, so she could
easily get on the right side of that in California,
a ballot major that would finally be to a fun crime. Harris,
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blah blah blah, blah blah blah. I'll get to the
actual quotes. So I have my ballot, which is a
typical Kamala Harris sort of way to jump into answering
a question.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
She asked directly, did you vote for it thirty So
I have my ballot? Yes, How did you vote on
Prop thirty six?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Was the question? So I have my ballot.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's on its way to California, and I'm going to
trust the system that it will arrive there. And I'm
not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And then she walked off.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Wow, if you can get elected president with your answer
to the question is, so, do you support taxpayers funding
sex changes for illegals? I'm going to follow the law? Okay, fine,
but do you support that policy? I'm going to follow
the law. And on Prop thirty six, do you support
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locking up criminals so they don't drive every convenience store
and UH and pharmacy out of California.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't want to weigh in on that and put
my thumb on I.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Have my ballot. I grew up in a middle class family.
Freaking unbelievable. Well, imagine the level of spinallessness and fecklessness
that you don't even have the political instincts to go
with what's popular, right, say, hey, the previous prop it
had some unforeseen consequences. If the people at California want
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to reform the system again and try again. I'm with them, Yeah,
I voted in that would be populist nothing burger, a
populist nothing burger. But she doesn't even have the confidence
to offer up a nothing burger.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
She the only thing I can figure out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So I was watching one of the zoom calls that
I watch all the time with heavyweight strategists, and a
couple of the Democrats are saying, it's a mystery within
democratic circles as to why she can't answer these questions.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We're not exactly sure why.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Obviously, you know, you have to assume that David pluf
and all the geniuses she's got around her haven't chosen
the strategy of don't answer the question. She just for
some reason can't answer the question, and nobody knows why.
But I'll bet they hadn't trained her up on this one,
and she went into oh no, oh, no, I better
not take a position mode.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Rather, she has no instincts. She has no positions or instincts.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
She's the opposite of Trump or Obama or any of
these people that have a you know, a point of view.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
She has none.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
How can you not take a position on making it
against the law again to freaking rob convenience. How can
you not take a position, especially when it I'll bet
she she has no idea how it's pulling. She just
does not that deep in the policy that is entirely possible.
I can't come up with an explanation, as you say,
if Democrats are mystified, I sure am, But I mean, seriously,
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she is the most vacuous candidate I've ever seen in
my life. She makes Michael Ducaccus, John Kerry look like
ideological dynamos, Walter Mondale, you name your losing candidate. They
were way more forceful and their positions understood than her.
Maybe that's why she's going with this strategy, being the
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mystery woman the black box, who knows what's in there
we don't know. And as Bill Clinton famously said, and
it seems to be true, it's better to be strong
and wrong than we can right. It's just to be
to have a strong position on something, which is what
works for Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But this one's so easy. Crime is an issue all
across the country.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He got seventy five percent of Californians saying, yeah, we
got to make crime pay again, uh not pay again.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And she will not even here It is Unbelichael, play
the ding, play the ding sound for me just went
off in my head.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The light bulb, she's Hitler.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
This is both the somebody making a gratuitous Hitler mentioned
alarm and the idea has gone off in my head.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The light bulb is going on.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
She dare not betray the far left flank of the
party that got the neo Marxist so called criminal justice
reform going.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
She she can't go there ideologically.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think more importantly than that, And this is my suspicion,
that's who she really is.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That is entirely possible.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The reason I think it's likely, the reason that pops
into her head is not just she doesn't want to
anger those people. That's who she is. And it rubs
her the wrong way to say those things.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Tell you what, I'm running for president someday, God help
the Republic. But if if my polsters come to me
and say, hey, Joe, all you have to do is
say you really need to limit the First Amendment. Hate
speech should be illegal. You're gonna win this thing now,
not with a shotgun to my head. And you think
I'm not saying that, and you're saying the similar with
(26:13):
her She's not gonna come out and say we should
lock up criminals because she believes it's systemic racism or
something like that. She's not gonna say taxpayers shouldn't fund
sex changes for criminals because she thinks they should.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm torn between the incompatible ideas of she can't betray
a sacred principle, which is bring on Marxism, and the
notion that she doesn't have any sacred principles whatsoever. This
is purely a transactional decision. She doesn't want to lose
her far left flank. I think it's probably the latter,
because the former assumes she has, you know, like bone
(26:50):
deep level principles.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Prop.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Forty seven, which is one of the biggest disasters for
California in its history.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It might be the s not might be.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It's probably almost certainly the single number one top reason
that California started losing population for the first time in
its history. Prop forty seven, and this is an effort
to reverse it, and she won't take a stand on it.
She's asked specifically in her answers. So I have my ballot,
it's on it's way to California, and I'm going to
(27:20):
trust the system that will arrive there. And I'm not
going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Nice freaking leadership, Madam President, good Lord.
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Speaker 1 (28:44):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Even the Washington Examiner says, which is a right leaning newspaper,
if you didn't know that Trump has charted his own
path in the final fateful days, going off script on
various tangents that have either stunned or energized supporters. But
even the examiners saying, stunning supporters, Yeah, this is the
(29:05):
last weekend and now you're doing the whole rambling not
talking about immigration and crime ah an inflation?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Ah? Is it just ill discipline? It's got to be.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I mean, I'm just I have this weird thought that
if a book came out down the road where it's
disclosed that Trump was highly ambivalent about serving another term
as president. At his age and given his luxurious lifestyle,
he wanted the win to go out a winner, but
wasn't sure he wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The job again, I could believe it if you heard
that with that shock you No, absolutely not. I mean,
how else to explain some of the bizarro crap he
said in the last couple of weeks when it looked
like he was on not a glide path exactly, but
really on the front foot, right. I think for yesterday,
(30:00):
I think he saw that Iowall pull, which we could
talk about later, but Joe will punch me in the face.
That was really not good news and just came out
yesterday and had the people who follow Pole's world flapping
their gums, and he just, you know, he just gets
stuff like that gets under his skin.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah I don't. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He called the polster from Eyewall kinds of bad names
during the rally.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I mean that's one tell right there, right right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Anybody up for psychoanalyzing Trump for the million and third time?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, me neither.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
All right, then, moving along, Oh, you know you brought
up that California stuff. I've got an absolutely fabulous California's
crumbling update for later on in the show. I'm just
going to hit you with one statistic if I can
find it real fast. Hang on now, I think I've
got it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, since September twenty two, when Emperor Gavin Newsom had
the state on full lockdown, remember, leaving the state of
emergency way beyond any possible justification given the wording of
the state of emergency.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Clause in California's constitution.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Anyway, since September twenty two, California has lost one hundred
and fifty four thousand jobs in the private sector and
gained three hundred and sixty one thousand in.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Government and government related sectors. Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It has become more and more a high tax heavy
government job killing state.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Wow. That is something.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, and that's from the Legislative Analyst's office too. This
is these are solid numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So one really great thing Trump did at the rally
over the weekend, want to tell you about. Maybe throw
that into Katie's headlines which are coming up.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I prefer that Trump would win over Harris, and that's
why I was disappointing that he kind of went angry
off the script yesterday for his big rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
But at his Virginia rally. He's doing seven rallies in
two days, which is a lot when you're about eighty
years old and fat. The entire Ronoke College swimming team
was on stage with him wearing shirts. Oh sang, you know,
protect women against men in sports, and that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's a good love.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
That.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Way to go, ladies, way to have the courage.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
We have a couple of celebrity endorsements have just rolled
in before we get to Katie. Oh both of them,
both of them for Kamala Harris. Oh no really, Monica
Lewinsky and Harrison Ford have both weigh in with their endorsements.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Boy, now my mind has changed, right right, whatever, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I it's too bad that I really don't believe Monica
deserves a kicking at this late date because I had
a really funny line flash through my mind, but you'll
never hear it, folks.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Sorry, wow, But the fact.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That Hans Solo has gone to the dark side, if
you would, very disturbing. I felt a disturbance in the
forest right before the show, and now I know what
it was. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Katie, Thank you guys, NBC.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Nearly seventy seven million mail in and early in person
votes have been cast nationally.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, it's going to be eighty million at least, So
over half the votes ahead of time were either okay
with that or or not.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I don't know. CNN.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Trump offers darkness, Harris offers optimism on election eve in America.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Just in general. You could do that every single day.
You can pick quotes out of Harris's rallies that are
all dark. I mean, when she's talking about he's Hitler
and an authoritarian and it'll never be another election.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That's dark.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
But you choose the happy quotes for her if you're
a liberal out well, and.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
She offered hope that inflation will continue to be high
and that there will be a dude ogling your eleven
year old daughter in a locking room, locker room.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's sort of hope, yay.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But yet Indiana Jones in the Temple of Equity is
on her side.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Woo from Forbes US accuses Russia of election interference over
viral videos with FBI seals.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh yes, that reminds me.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Microsoft came out with the warning, remember several weeks ago,
that they believe the last forty eight hours which we're
in is going to be high time for China, Russia, Iran, everybody,
all the evil doers to really try to mess with
our elections in social media and stuff like that. So
keep an eye out for phony videos that you promote.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The other's one of a Haitian guy who says he
voted nine times or something like that.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's completely fake. Did he have a cat leg hanging
out of his mouth? Oh wow, No, see that's not
the accurate. Oh.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
From the Associated Press, the man who took in orphaned
Peanut the Squirrel says, it's quote surreal that officials euthanized
his pet.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
We got to go big on that story. Oh yeah,
I can't wait. And it's much more important than it
might seem at first. Blush, Okay, it has real significance.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I'll take your word for it because I had not
looked into pean at the Squirrel. I just saw the headlines.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
ABC, drunes and rockets fired at Israel from two different directions.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
One thing that will happen when this election is finally over,
which hopefully will be this week, we can go back
to paying attention to some really important stories in the
world that were completely ignoring as a country.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
From Breitbart, New Jersey woman votes in her bra after
being told to ditch.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Her Maga year. I saw that.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah, right, USA today TGI Friday's files for bankruptcy. However,
restaurants will remain open amid restructuring.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I just think it's all the remote workers. Nobody cares
if it's Friday or not, because they kind of screw
off all week long.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Huh do you mean of the day we turned back
our clocks? An hour? An extra hour of twenty twenty
four is like a bonus track.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
On a Yoko Ono album. Hilarious.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
And the Babylon b New kam Alexa edition of Amazon
Echo will just ramble on for ten minutes without ever
answering your questions.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
There you go, that's good.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
The Chinese might be listening to your phone calls. Honest
to god, We're going to talk to Josh Rogan of
The Washington Post an hour or two, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and Jack and he is Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Why from studio scene sees or a dimly lit room
deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications Compound kicking off the brand new week elections tomorrow.
Until day we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
The last nerve has him what everybody's.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
On at this point.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Boy, first polls close six Eastern time tomorrow, three.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
O'clock my time, our ton.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But maybe it won't have any results for royal. Hard
to say. Here's the most interesting thing I learned over
the weekend. This is not about a particular poll. This
is about the polling in general. We talked about this.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
On I'm going to say, anybody brings up polls, we're fighting, well,
this is well.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This is why you were right about that. This is
why you walked into the rooms and said, oh, be Gorer,
I saw a poll that was interesting. I would just
go ahead and get my head beat in because I'm
fighting and anybody who brings up any posts but anyway,
this backs up your thinking excellent. So we talked about
this a little on Friday. The new term that I
(02:11):
learned that seems to be the big thing is hurting
in the world of polling, where you don't want to
put out a poll that's an outlier because it could
make you look bad or something like that. Even though
that's the way polling works, they should be kind of
all over the place, just kind of moving a direction
or not. Nate Silver ran the numbers and decided that
for all seven swing states, he said, even if all
seven swing states are actually tied down to the vote,
(02:36):
for all of the polls to show erase this close
without hurting, like without the pollsters getting involved and trying
to make them close, that would be a one and
nine point five trillion chance of all of the polls
being all the states being this close at the same
time in all the polls. Wow, one on nine point
five trillion chance of that happening.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Statistic. I was ready for a big number. I wasn't
ready for that Bega number. And in other words, this
is absolutely laughable.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean it could be well, he said, even
if they're tied, it would be so, but they could
be that close.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But they're definitely not. That's not accurate.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It could one candidate could easily win every state and
be that far ahead because they were just working so
hard to We're underestimating Trump and will be killed for
this for the next four years, or we're overestimating Trump
and all the Harris people are gonna be mad at
this or whatever they're doing to try to get it closer,
and it's just not realistic.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I have a couple of thoughts, especially for people
who didn't hear that segment last week. Number One, you
would expect with a margin for air three percent in
either direction, and it really ought to be called a
it's not error per se. It's a margin of inexactitude.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think that's the I think that might be one
of the problems. I was thinking about this all weekend
as I learn more about this. Somehow we got in
our heads with no evidence that polling is a bit
exact dish of a science and it's just not never
has been, never will be.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's impossible. Oh yeah, it's a shotgun. It's not a
sniper's right. It shouldn't be called the margin of error.
It's not an error, but you'd expect that if all
the polls were honest, you would have a fairly randomized
set of results that spanned the so called margin of error, right,
not all of them ending up. It's just impossible. They're
not that accurate. Again, it's a shotgun. You wouldn't hit
(04:21):
the bulls eye and only the bulls eye every single time.
So that's thought number one. Second, second thought in hell,
this is for you, Jack, as much as it is
for the audience. It reminds me so much of every
executive in show business, in entertainment, in communication, the creative arts, whatever.
None of them get fired for doing what everybody else
(04:43):
is doing, right, so they think, yeah, yeah, let's not innovator,
take a chance.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's just do what everybody's doing all the damn time,
even if it's failing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Across an industry, they just don't want to be the
guy who tries something different, because then you're at risk. Yeah,
this reminds me of that principle. But now, among polsters.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
One in nine point five trillion chants of having all
the polls come out that close, that is guffaw worthy.
It absolutely is. So.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I appreciate Nate Silver's recent turn to the speaker of
truth I mean he's always kind of been that, but
he's well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In a call out as you know, the powers that
be I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, so that gives you an idea of where things
are on that and then.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The polls start closing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Indiana and Kentucky will close at six eastern three on
the West coast, which is right in the middle of
the afternoon, and we'll start getting some results, but you know,
if they're super close. Who knows who came up with
these weird rules that, Like, for probably the most important
state in the entire election, Pennsylvania, they don't start opening
(05:52):
the ballots until the polls close. That's the state law.
Why why do you wait till seven at night to
start opening the ballots? I mean, what's the theory behind that?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I suspect so no preliminary results or trends get out
that might influence the election. I think back in the
day when it was a few mail in ballots, and
remember these these rules were crafted Like it's as if
our traffic laws were crafted for nineteen twenty seven, when
there's like fifteen cars on the road in Manhattan. Yeah,
(06:22):
it was crafted for when there were a few mail
in ballots. The rest were, you know, live ballot packs.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We're actually going to play a clip later. I came
across this. It got fed to me and my algorithm
on YouTube. It was election night nineteen eighty four. And
if that's how different politics are now, and I guess
our patients nineteen eighty four, if you don't remember, Ronald
Reagan won every single state but one. And so the
(06:49):
election results are rolling in and it's a monta. It's
like edited together.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Like an hour long.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it's really
hilarious compared to the way they would handle it now.
We now have another state in and Ronald Reagan currently
leads one ninety two to zero.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Jim and they, but nobody called it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Nobody called the race even though so clearly over, and
I'm sure all the polling leading up to it showed
it to be not even close. But they still hung
in there as journalists and didn't call it until it
was over, which is so different than the way we
do thing now. It's a race to see who can
call it first or not call it first if it's
not going your political direction.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Forty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's something now, though, I think they hung in there
saying it's now two hundred and eleven for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Michael Dukakis has zero.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
A reminders that President Reagan has not yet crossed the
threshold seventy electoral votes and so their results are uncertain.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Has a different time, man, different time.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And I remember we had Newt Gingrich on this show
years ago, and I remember asking him the question, when
will this whole polarization thing be over? And he said,
when one side wins? And I was thinking, man, that
election nineteen eighty four, one side had won at least
for a while, clearly, I mean it was, you know,
(08:15):
we're not at each other's throats, because it was clear
where the vast majority of people were. Yeah, And the
Democratic Party went back home and reinvented itself and came
up with a moderate, a conservative by today's standards, and
absolutely yeah, who was pro capital punishment and wanted to
make people work for their welfare check and all kinds
of different things. That's the way politics works. But we're
(08:36):
a long way from that now, good lord.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, yeah, Well, it's funny not to get too winding
in our roadmap of topics here.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So we're we're doing the Trump weave. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I had a conversation with a couple of friends over
the week, including one Jewish fellow, who agreed completely that
the Israeli peace plan of will defeat our enemies is
absolutely necessary. How does this incredible violence end when one
side wins? That's the story human history, not Barack Obama
(09:12):
sitting at a bargaining table and coming up with some
intellectually superior set of agreements and counterbalances. No one side's
got a win. Seems ugly to the modern consciousness, but.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's the way humans are.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
There are two stories that made me very angry over
the weekend, both of them in the same direction politically
against Trump and four Harris just unbelievable. But we should
start to show officially before mention that I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, November the fourth, man.
November the fifth has been thrown around as a threat
or a promise for so long, good lord, and it's
(09:47):
tomorrow finally. Anyway, it's your twenty twenty four life. Will
not be a born twenty four. We're Armstrong and getting
we approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Let's begin then Officially, according to f SEC rules and regulations,
the show starts at mark.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So on election night, don't expect to know the winner.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We probably will have a pretty good idea who won
the presidency, maybe around Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, that's from sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You know what they're gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna
be like one hundred post polling polls that come out,
according to the New York Times, see in a post
election poll, it appears Trump may have won.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
If they're right that it'll be Thursday or Friday, you
could easily skip the news tomorrow and not miss a thing, right,
a thing, not a thing that matters. There'll be all
kinds of conjecture, and this could happen, that could happen,
but not a thing of substance if it plays.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Out the way they just described it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There not unless you are an uber political geek who
wants to know how the fourth district of Indiana went,
because that's frequently a bell weather for the blah blah blah.
I mean, if you just want to know who's winning
the game, no, forget it, complete waste of time.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah yeah, so I had build all this excitement for uh,
you know, it's gonna get sitters and get a little
meth and whatever it took to be able to go
all day long and all night long. But there might
not be any actual news to be had on Tuesday,
November fifth.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And what's so funny is then somebody I'll go ahead
and say it ways in and says, on the other hand,
it might be a decisive sweep for Trump or Harris
or something nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You know, I'm gonna hang on to the two incredibly
egregious things that happened over the weekend politically that you
get more commentary just freaking angering. But I guess it's
where we are in our politics. We'll talk about that
at the bottomn How does mail bag.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Look very strong start to the week? Awesome?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
I am so flexible now after a couple of months
of stretching every single.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Day's so flexible. Well, congratulations, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I just threw my foot up on the counter at
the time my shoes in a way that I could
not do at all.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What wow, good for you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I got my foot way up here, huh up on
the count of Craze.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's awesome. Well, it was just a couple of months ago.
If I'd dropped a pen on the floor, Sam, can
you come downstairs? Your father has dropped a pen. I
couldn't bend over to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, congratulations, I too, as you know, have embraced stretching
rapidly for me to save myself from excruciating pain.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But it's been, you know, a good thing. In general.
I think I could put both feet behind my head.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You want to see me? O, Lord, please Michael quick
play the freedom loving quote of the day. Music or
cut off is mike, or or hand out cups of
hemlock or something whatever. Mix it in, So beloved listener
Steve sent this along Patrick Henry and Donald Trump, and
it begins with a quote from Patrick Henry and.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Ends with one from Trump.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is the complete Patrick Henry quote on King George
the Third, Like so many of the great quotes from
the Revolutionary period, off and the context is lost because
they want to keep it good and pithy.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
But he's talking about King George the Third.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Caesar had his brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell and
George the third may profit by their example. If this
be treason, make the most of it, which is a
great restatement of Look, if you take a shot.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
At the king, don't miss.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All right, If we're committing treason, we gotta get it
done all the way.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You can't partially do that, or you end up dead
and accomplishing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, the greatest sin is to hit softly and then
trump on warhawk Liz Cheney, she is a radical warhawk.
Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine
barrels shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
about it, you know, when the guns are trained on
her face.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
If I'm not sure what Steve's point is in judgeaposing
those two quotes.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But that whole quote is not played very often. That's
one of the things that has me so angry. The
coverage of that story is and this is an extraordinary statement,
I realize, but it is the single worst coverage of
a major story that matters in my lifetime. Yes, I mean,
it's just a hundred percent lie.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, lot to say, but I think it represents the
complete abandonment of the principles of journalism to which many
of us had clung for many years. Yeah, any semblance
of accuracy or even handedness. Mailbag, drop us a note,
mailbag at Armstrong you getty dot com. Keep it as
short as you can, but you know with any reason.
Got this note from mad Dog. It's Monday morning. Where
(14:22):
are you guys withdrawals?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Where did it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Work for the same schedule where maybe you forgot to
spring backward or fall.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
To the side or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's right, there's a time change, so probably a quarter
of our audience had heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Stats bear that out. Jack moving along. I like this
from Steve and Everett Washington. Grew up in a JFK
household where we were revered free speech, individual choice, civil liberties,
civil rights. I want to conserve those liberal values. Does
that make me a liberal or a conservative?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, that's the interesting thing about the term something.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's as I came up with a test, and he
talks about your high school self and if you'd be
shocked at where you are politically these days, and then
he says, the Republican of today is not demonstrably different
than when I was in high school. However, the Democrat
of today would absolutely shock the Democrat of the nineteen seventies.
Make of that what you will. Well, a hell of
a lot of people Steve are saying that I didn't
(15:21):
leave the party. The party left me, and I hope
more wake up to the absurdities of the modern woke
Democratic Party, the absurdities and obscenities. Anyway, moving along, this
is from Frank just c and know. I was told
by an officer at the vote by mail office I
should drop my stuff at a dropbox or just go
to the voting center because they're having postal issues. Drop
Boxes are nowhere to be found anywhere in my zip code.
(15:43):
I have to drop it off at the voting center.
I might as well vote there. Don't get me started on.
Even if the vote is safe and voter fraud is
extremely rare, if people have a widespread perception that it's.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The wild West, and who who knows.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
What's going on with all the ballots, you've lost, You've
lost the game.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Did you see this story, Jahad?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Did you see the story about the Chinese national voting
in Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think over the weekend, I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Just saw the headline Marco Rubio is going big on
that on facin Nation yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We can talk about that. This from rich Trump's doing
a lot of stupid. It's almost as if he's trying
to lose or something. He's lost as marbles. Oh this weekend. Anyway,
he said he should not have left the White House
in twenty twenty. Oh lord, he said he's going to
eliminate fluoride. We grew up in Latin America. No fluoride.
(16:38):
We all have terrible teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So yeah, that's RFK Junior's big thing, taking the floor
out out of the water. And Trump says he's going
to appoint him. But so did Trump say I shouldn't
have left the White House?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, he said something of that effect. Oh my god,
that's not the right thing to say. In the closing days.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Wherever Harris, if she wins with this strategy, and she might,
it's horrible for our politics and horrible for America. Are
not weighing in on important topics just so she can
have it both ways. The worst, most egregious example coming up,
(17:16):
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the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, you should subscribe.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Kamala, take my Pamela. The American people want to stop
the chaos and end the DRAMAA with a cool new step.
Mamala came back in our pajamaa's and watch a rum Kamala.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You know that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I thought she was good on there for what politicians do.
And this was interesting to me though, that the FCC commissioner,
who was a Republican, came out immediately and said, that's
not fair. You don't get to have one candidate on
and not the other. So NBC had to have Trump
on last night for Sunday Night Football, the most watched
show in America, and he got to do a couple
(18:09):
of ads at the end of the game to balance
it out. So I got the big NASCAR race too.
That's how that worked over the weekend. I think you're
actually better off as Trump. I guarantee you you're better
off as Trump at the end of the NFL game
than you are on Saturday Night Live. So that that's
a pretty good equal time for him.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Boy, unless he unleashed Martin Luther esque statement of principles
and persuasion, he's not gonna move anybody watching Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, and they wouldn't they wouldn't treat him fairly anyway,
What was I gonna say, Oh, so we'll get into
it later.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
The whole.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Trump saying Liz Cheney is a chicken hawk. This is,
by the way, as you all know, the criticism that
the left has been using on Liz chaneing your dad
for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean, it's not even like unconservatives. I mean it's
literally the same person, right that they vote for war,
but they don't have to fight him themselves. And Trump
said exactly the same thing with very colorful language about
how about if she's out there with a gun and
she's got nine guns trained at her face?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But the media endited that down and.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Presented it for four days now as if Trump had
threatened Liz Cheney with a firing squad.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Basically is the way it was portrayed on all media.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I mean, just absolutely, egregiously lying about the context, even
when that's the exact thing they've been saying about Dick
Cheney and his daughter for years.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Right, I'm sorry, are we not talking about this now
or we are gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Play the clips later? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Because I want to get to this. This is why
I had to steam for. Sorry, I went too far
with the thing I'm not talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is the one.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
This is the one that really makes me mad though.
And if you can get If Kamala Harris wins, we're
into a new era. I guess that hopefully only applies
when you're running against Trump. The most important thing going
on in California for those of us who live here
is Prop thirty six, where they'll m make crime a
crime again. That's the idea that currently, because of a
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prop that misled a bunch of soft heads from several
years back, you can steal up to one thousand dollars
with a stuff at a store and it's not a
felony and so, and you can do it over and
over again. That's why those of you around the rest
of the country have seen all the videos of people
going into a Walgreens and sweeping all the stuff off
(20:39):
the shelf into the bag. That's why all the Walgreens
have closed. That's why all the CBS's have closed. That's
why your toothpaste and everything that's worth more than fifty cents.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Is locked up, locked up.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
My toothpaste is because of that, and Prop thirty six
will reverse it and Kamala Harris listen to how this
played out. She's a Californian still, she was a senator
from California. She refused to answer when asked how she
would vote on a measure to impose harsher sentences on criminals.
She was taking questions from reporters in Michigan yesterday when
she discussed she had cast her own ballot in the
(21:11):
final hours of the race. She confirmed that she was
voting by mail and hoped it would get to her
home state on time. She was then asked how she
voted on Proposition thirteen, which by the way, is passing
like seventy five percent to twenty currently, so she could
easily get on the right side of that in California,
a ballot major that would finally be to a fun crime. Harris,
(21:32):
blah blah blah, blah blah blah. I'll get to the
actual quotes. So I have my ballot, which is a
typical Kamala Harris sort of way to jump into answering
a question.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
She asked directly, did you vote for it thirty So
I have my ballot? Yes, How did you vote on
Prop thirty six?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Was the question? So I have my ballot.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's on its way to California, and I'm going to
trust the system that it will arrive there. And I'm
not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And then she walked off.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Wow, if you can get elected president with your answer
to the question is, so, do you support taxpayers funding
sex changes for illegals? I'm going to follow the law? Okay, fine,
but do you support that policy? I'm going to follow
the law. And on Prop thirty six, do you support
(22:26):
locking up criminals so they don't drive every convenience store
and UH and pharmacy out of California.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't want to weigh in on that and put
my thumb on I.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Have my ballot. I grew up in a middle class family.
Freaking unbelievable. Well, imagine the level of spinallessness and fecklessness
that you don't even have the political instincts to go
with what's popular, right, say, hey, the previous prop it
had some unforeseen consequences. If the people at California want
(22:56):
to reform the system again and try again. I'm with them, Yeah,
I voted in that would be populist nothing burger, a
populist nothing burger. But she doesn't even have the confidence
to offer up a nothing burger.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
She the only thing I can figure out.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So I was watching one of the zoom calls that
I watch all the time with heavyweight strategists, and a
couple of the Democrats are saying, it's a mystery within
democratic circles as to why she can't answer these questions.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We're not exactly sure why.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Obviously, you know, you have to assume that David pluf
and all the geniuses she's got around her haven't chosen
the strategy of don't answer the question. She just for
some reason can't answer the question, and nobody knows why.
But I'll bet they hadn't trained her up on this one,
and she went into oh no, oh, no, I better
not take a position mode.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Rather, she has no instincts. She has no positions or instincts.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
She's the opposite of Trump or Obama or any of
these people that have a you know, a point of view.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
She has none.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
How can you not take a position on making it
against the law again to freaking rob convenience. How can
you not take a position, especially when it I'll bet
she she has no idea how it's pulling. She just
does not that deep in the policy that is entirely possible.
I can't come up with an explanation, as you say,
if Democrats are mystified, I sure am, But I mean, seriously,
(24:16):
she is the most vacuous candidate I've ever seen in
my life. She makes Michael Ducaccus, John Kerry look like
ideological dynamos, Walter Mondale, you name your losing candidate. They
were way more forceful and their positions understood than her.
Maybe that's why she's going with this strategy, being the
(24:36):
mystery woman the black box, who knows what's in there
we don't know. And as Bill Clinton famously said, and
it seems to be true, it's better to be strong
and wrong than we can right. It's just to be
to have a strong position on something, which is what
works for Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But this one's so easy. Crime is an issue all
across the country.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He got seventy five percent of Californians saying, yeah, we
got to make crime pay again, uh not pay again.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And she will not even here It is Unbelichael, play
the ding, play the ding sound for me just went
off in my head.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The light bulb, she's Hitler.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
This is both the somebody making a gratuitous Hitler mentioned
alarm and the idea has gone off in my head.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The light bulb is going on.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
She dare not betray the far left flank of the
party that got the neo Marxist so called criminal justice
reform going.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
She she can't go there ideologically.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think more importantly than that, And this is my suspicion,
that's who she really is.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That is entirely possible.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The reason I think it's likely, the reason that pops
into her head is not just she doesn't want to
anger those people. That's who she is. And it rubs
her the wrong way to say those things.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Tell you what, I'm running for president someday, God help
the Republic. But if if my polsters come to me
and say, hey, Joe, all you have to do is
say you really need to limit the First Amendment. Hate
speech should be illegal. You're gonna win this thing now,
not with a shotgun to my head. And you think
I'm not saying that, and you're saying the similar with
(26:13):
her She's not gonna come out and say we should
lock up criminals because she believes it's systemic racism or
something like that. She's not gonna say taxpayers shouldn't fund
sex changes for criminals because she thinks they should.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm torn between the incompatible ideas of she can't betray
a sacred principle, which is bring on Marxism, and the
notion that she doesn't have any sacred principles whatsoever. This
is purely a transactional decision. She doesn't want to lose
her far left flank. I think it's probably the latter,
because the former assumes she has, you know, like bone
(26:50):
deep level principles.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Prop.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Forty seven, which is one of the biggest disasters for
California in its history.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It might be the s not might be.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It's probably almost certainly the single number one top reason
that California started losing population for the first time in
its history. Prop forty seven, and this is an effort
to reverse it, and she won't take a stand on it.
She's asked specifically in her answers. So I have my ballot,
it's on it's way to California, and I'm going to
(27:20):
trust the system that will arrive there. And I'm not
going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Nice freaking leadership, Madam President, good Lord.
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Speaker 1 (28:44):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Even the Washington Examiner says, which is a right leaning newspaper,
if you didn't know that Trump has charted his own
path in the final fateful days, going off script on
various tangents that have either stunned or energized supporters. But
even the examiners saying, stunning supporters, Yeah, this is the
(29:05):
last weekend and now you're doing the whole rambling not
talking about immigration and crime ah an inflation?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Ah? Is it just ill discipline? It's got to be.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I mean, I'm just I have this weird thought that
if a book came out down the road where it's
disclosed that Trump was highly ambivalent about serving another term
as president. At his age and given his luxurious lifestyle,
he wanted the win to go out a winner, but
wasn't sure he wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The job again, I could believe it if you heard
that with that shock you No, absolutely not. I mean,
how else to explain some of the bizarro crap he
said in the last couple of weeks when it looked
like he was on not a glide path exactly, but
really on the front foot, right. I think for yesterday,
(30:00):
I think he saw that Iowall pull, which we could
talk about later, but Joe will punch me in the face.
That was really not good news and just came out
yesterday and had the people who follow Pole's world flapping
their gums, and he just, you know, he just gets
stuff like that gets under his skin.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah I don't. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He called the polster from Eyewall kinds of bad names
during the rally.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I mean that's one tell right there, right right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Anybody up for psychoanalyzing Trump for the million and third time?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, me neither.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
All right, then, moving along, Oh, you know you brought
up that California stuff. I've got an absolutely fabulous California's
crumbling update for later on in the show. I'm just
going to hit you with one statistic if I can
find it real fast. Hang on now, I think I've
got it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, since September twenty two, when Emperor Gavin Newsom had
the state on full lockdown, remember, leaving the state of
emergency way beyond any possible justification given the wording of
the state of emergency.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Clause in California's constitution.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Anyway, since September twenty two, California has lost one hundred
and fifty four thousand jobs in the private sector and
gained three hundred and sixty one thousand in.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Government and government related sectors. Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It has become more and more a high tax heavy
government job killing state.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Wow. That is something.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, and that's from the Legislative Analyst's office too. This
is these are solid numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So one really great thing Trump did at the rally
over the weekend, want to tell you about. Maybe throw
that into Katie's headlines which are coming up.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I prefer that Trump would win over Harris, and that's
why I was disappointing that he kind of went angry
off the script yesterday for his big rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
But at his Virginia rally. He's doing seven rallies in
two days, which is a lot when you're about eighty
years old and fat. The entire Ronoke College swimming team
was on stage with him wearing shirts. Oh sang, you know,
protect women against men in sports, and that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's a good love.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
That.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Way to go, ladies, way to have the courage.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
We have a couple of celebrity endorsements have just rolled
in before we get to Katie. Oh both of them,
both of them for Kamala Harris. Oh no really, Monica
Lewinsky and Harrison Ford have both weigh in with their endorsements.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Boy, now my mind has changed, right right, whatever, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I it's too bad that I really don't believe Monica
deserves a kicking at this late date because I had
a really funny line flash through my mind, but you'll
never hear it, folks.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Sorry, wow, But the fact.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That Hans Solo has gone to the dark side, if
you would, very disturbing. I felt a disturbance in the
forest right before the show, and now I know what
it was. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Katie, Thank you guys, NBC.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Nearly seventy seven million mail in and early in person
votes have been cast nationally.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, it's going to be eighty million at least, So
over half the votes ahead of time were either okay
with that or or not.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I don't know. CNN.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Trump offers darkness, Harris offers optimism on election eve in America.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Just in general. You could do that every single day.
You can pick quotes out of Harris's rallies that are
all dark. I mean, when she's talking about he's Hitler
and an authoritarian and it'll never be another election.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That's dark.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
But you choose the happy quotes for her if you're
a liberal out well, and.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
She offered hope that inflation will continue to be high
and that there will be a dude ogling your eleven
year old daughter in a locking room, locker room.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's sort of hope, yay.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But yet Indiana Jones in the Temple of Equity is
on her side.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Woo from Forbes US accuses Russia of election interference over
viral videos with FBI seals.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh yes, that reminds me.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Microsoft came out with the warning, remember several weeks ago,
that they believe the last forty eight hours which we're
in is going to be high time for China, Russia, Iran, everybody,
all the evil doers to really try to mess with
our elections in social media and stuff like that. So
keep an eye out for phony videos that you promote.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The other's one of a Haitian guy who says he
voted nine times or something like that.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's completely fake. Did he have a cat leg hanging
out of his mouth? Oh wow, No, see that's not
the accurate. Oh.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
From the Associated Press, the man who took in orphaned
Peanut the Squirrel says, it's quote surreal that officials euthanized
his pet.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
We got to go big on that story. Oh yeah,
I can't wait. And it's much more important than it
might seem at first. Blush, Okay, it has real significance.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I'll take your word for it because I had not
looked into pean at the Squirrel. I just saw the headlines.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
ABC, drunes and rockets fired at Israel from two different directions.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
One thing that will happen when this election is finally over,
which hopefully will be this week, we can go back
to paying attention to some really important stories in the
world that were completely ignoring as a country.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
From Breitbart, New Jersey woman votes in her bra after
being told to ditch.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Her Maga year. I saw that.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah, right, USA today TGI Friday's files for bankruptcy. However,
restaurants will remain open amid restructuring.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I just think it's all the remote workers. Nobody cares
if it's Friday or not, because they kind of screw
off all week long.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Huh do you mean of the day we turned back
our clocks? An hour? An extra hour of twenty twenty
four is like a bonus track.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
On a Yoko Ono album. Hilarious.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
And the Babylon b New kam Alexa edition of Amazon
Echo will just ramble on for ten minutes without ever
answering your questions.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
There you go, that's good.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
The Chinese might be listening to your phone calls. Honest
to god, We're going to talk to Josh Rogan of
The Washington Post an hour or two, Armstrong and Getty
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